Activities/Gnuchess

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About Gnuchess

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Gnuchess is a Sugar front end to the gnuchess program [1], a computer program for playing chess.

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Where to get Gnuchess

The Gnuchess activity is not yet available for download from the Sugar Activity Library: Gnuchess

The source code is available on on the Sugar Labs Gitorious server.

Using Gnuchess

The Toolbars

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from left to right
Activity-toolbar Button
(toolbar described below)
Edit-toolbar Button
(toolbar described below)
View-toolbar Button
(toolbar described below)
Configure-toolbar Button
(toolbar described below)
Custom-toolbar Button
(toolbar described below)
New game
Starts a new game.
Undo
Reverts last move (When playing against the robot, the last two moves are reverted.)
Hint
Used to offer a hint to the current player
Message area
Used to indicate current status
Stop Button
used to exit the activity

Activity Toolbar

Activity name field
used to change the name of the activity
Reflection Button
used to write descriptions for the Journal entry of this instance of Portfolio
Share Button
disabled (Gnuchess Activity does not yet support sharing)

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Copy
Copy current game to clipboard (in algrbraic chess notation)
Paste
Paste a game from the clipboard (in algrbraic chess notation)

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Fullscreen
Used to show board at full screen with no toolbars showing. (Type ESC to return from Fullscreen mode.)
Playback
Playback the current game as an animation.
Game history
See a transcript of the game history in algebraic chess notation [2].
White
Display of White's most recent move
Black
Display of Black's most recent move

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Play White
Play Black
Easy
Hard
Play against the computer
Play against a person

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Used to load custom artwork for each piece from the Sugar Journal.

Learning with Gnuchess

Extending Gnuchess

Where to report problems

You can soon report bugs and make feature requests on our bug-tracking system (You need to create an account first). To list all open tickets of Gnuchess you can use query component=Gnuchess. You are also welcome to leave comments/suggestions on the Talk:Activities/Gnuchess page.

Credits

The Sugar wrapper for GNU Chess was written and is maintained by User:Walter.